Selling Normal

Love in Action is not the only organisation to promote 'degayification' (as the movie Saved put it). There are plenty of organisations out there who claim to offer a similar 'service' -- just google for 'ex-gay' to find them. Not all of these groups are church-affiliated, but many are.

The biggest problem for me with regard to these organisations is that they promote shame. Everything they do, in fact, is about shame. Some of them claim to only want to help those people who want to reject their own gay 'lifestyle' (these organisations seem to uniformly deny that there is a genetic component to sexuality). Yet, if you live in a family/community/world where being gay is seen as shameful, of course you will feel ashamed, unless you can find support from people who let you feel normal.

This blogger has some very interesting comments and links on this matter. Also very useful is Ex-Gay Watch, a blog that keeps an eye on the activities of ex-gay groups.

I want to make it clear that I have no problem with Christianity, or any religion for that matter. I respect other people's religious beliefs. I do have a problem with this ex-gay rubbish that ruin lives and creates so much hate and unhappiness -- or, even worse, feeds off pre-existing hate and unhappiness for the financial gain of a few crooked salesmen who are selling 'normal'.